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Load validation of aero-elastic simulations with measurements performed on a 850kW horizontal-axis wind turbine
In this work, aero-elastic solver predictions with HAWC2 are compared with measured data from a VESTAS V52 wind turbine situated at DTU campus Riso. Nearly one year of several measured wind conditions were considered for selection of loads and performance simulations. A new methodology for adjusting strain gauge (SG) calibrations originally from blade pull testing over time is presented. As a result, we show and discuss the different predictions on power performance and compare results with measured blade loads, under the condition of adjusting blade SG pull test calibration for temperature and time degradation effects
Explicit lower and upper bounds on the entangled value of multiplayer XOR games
XOR games are the simplest model in which the nonlocal properties of
entanglement manifest themselves. When there are two players, it is well known
that the bias --- the maximum advantage over random play --- of entangled
players can be at most a constant times greater than that of classical players.
Recently, P\'{e}rez-Garc\'{i}a et al. [Comm. Math. Phys. 279 (2), 2008] showed
that no such bound holds when there are three or more players: the advantage of
entangled players over classical players can become unbounded, and scale with
the number of questions in the game. Their proof relies on non-trivial results
from operator space theory, and gives a non-explicit existence proof, leading
to a game with a very large number of questions and only a loose control over
the local dimension of the players' shared entanglement.
We give a new, simple and explicit (though still probabilistic) construction
of a family of three-player XOR games which achieve a large quantum-classical
gap (QC-gap). This QC-gap is exponentially larger than the one given by
P\'{e}rez-Garc\'{i}a et. al. in terms of the size of the game, achieving a
QC-gap of order with questions per player. In terms of the
dimension of the entangled state required, we achieve the same (optimal) QC-gap
of for a state of local dimension per player. Moreover, the
optimal entangled strategy is very simple, involving observables defined by
tensor products of the Pauli matrices.
Additionally, we give the first upper bound on the maximal QC-gap in terms of
the number of questions per player, showing that our construction is only
quadratically off in that respect. Our results rely on probabilistic estimates
on the norm of random matrices and higher-order tensors which may be of
independent interest.Comment: Major improvements in presentation; results identica
Quantum Decoherence of Two Qubits
It is commonly stated that decoherence in open quantum systems is due to
growing entanglement with an environment. In practice, however, surprisingly
often decoherence may equally well be described by random unitary dynamics
without invoking a quantum environment at all. For a single qubit, for
instance, pure decoherence (or phase damping) is always of random unitary type.
Here, we construct a simple example of true quantum decoherence of two qubits:
we present a feasible phase damping channel of which we show that it cannot be
understood in terms of random unitary dynamics. We give a very intuitive
geometrical measure for the positive distance of our channel to the convex set
of random unitary channels and find remarkable agreement with the so-called
Birkhoff defect based on the norm of complete boundedness.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Development of a standardised cup anemometer suited to wind energy applications.:Publishable final report
Phenotypic indicators to identify methionine rich European grain legumes and the correlation of grain methionine contents with the sulphur supply
Home grown legumes are a valuable protein source for pure on-farm diets for livestock in organic farming. Whereas protein of Glycine max naturally has higher contents of methionine nand also lysine typical European grain legumes (Pisum sativum L., Vicia faba L., Lupinus angustifolius L.) used in organic farms as component of animal food are relatively low in those amino acids
M\"ossbauer, nuclear inelastic scattering and density functional studies on the second metastable state of Na2[Fe(CN)5NO]2H2O
The structure of the light-induced metastable state SII of
Na2[Fe(CN)5NO]2H2O 14 was investigated by transmission M\"ossbauer
spectroscopy (TMS) in the temperature range 15 between 85 and 135 K, nuclear
inelastic scattering (NIS) at 98 K using synchrotron 16 radiation and density
functional theory (DFT) calculations. The DFT and TMS results 17 strongly
support the view that the NO group in SII takes a side-on molecular orientation
18 and, further, is dynamically displaced from one eclipsed, via a staggered,
to a second 19 eclipsed orientation. The population conditions for generating
SII are optimal for 20 measurements by TMS, yet they are modest for
accumulating NIS spectra. Optimization 21 of population conditions for NIS
measurements is discussed and new NIS experiments on 22 SII are proposed
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